Critter Keeper....
I looked down the street one day, and saw a group of vigilantes with various weapons looking up in a tree.
I walked down and a guy said:"There's a huge copperhead up in this tree!" He pointed it out, and I told him it wasn't a copperhead and asked that nobody get crazy. I showed them my Texas ratsnake, then proceeded to catch that one.
It was pretty docile for a Texas ratsnake, they generally just bite the crap out of you. I mean, AFTER I got it home, and took it out of the Critter Keeper. It was about 4 1/2 -5' long, about the same size as my pet one of 15 years, ( which I've put in a Critter Keeper many times.
But see, Oscar had grown up being in and out of those things, she was too small to get out. This snake just watched me for a whole day. Then I went to the store. I come home, and I hit something opening the front door. It's that snake, it's now wild again and would have bit the crap out of me if I let it. So anyway, it had just pushed the lid off that Critter Keeper.
I put some heavy rocks on each end so that couldn't happen again. I went to work and came home to an empty CK. DOH!!! That little clear window was OPEN!
My cat found it a week later. He was staring hard behind my amplifier, and at first, I thought he was just imagining things. I looked and didn't see anything. I looked an hour later, and found that dang snake.
I built a nice viv for it, but after about a month or two, let it go. I just didn't want to have to buy mice for two snakes. It was a cool snake though, it only bit me once on the side of my head.
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